Required Configuration for Phishing Simulation emails

Exchange online protection (EOP)/ Defender for Office 365 (MDO) customers who want to send phishing simulation emails, need to configure advance delivery policy for optimal behavior. This policy will ensure that emails that match your conditions are delivered unfiltered to the Inbox and that safe links time of click protection and post-delivery actions are disabled. Previously, EOP supported this scenario for some phishing simulation vendors by honoring admin configured Exchange transport rules stamping SCL -1 or the header (X-MS-ExchangeOrganizationPhishTraining). But this was a temporary solution and will be discontinued soon. We advise all customers who use phishing simulation products to configure advance delivery policy for a smooth product experience.

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Originally posted by Microsoft Sep 13, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

New servicing profiles and Inventory experience in Microsoft 365 Apps admin center

New improvements are coming to Microsoft 365 Apps admin center’s servicing profile and inventory to reduce admin burden and help build confidence to move to Monthly Updates. This will include changes to some of your Settings, and retirement of some device selection criteria. Below is an overview of changes and potential actions you can do to prepare for change.

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Originally posted by Microsoft Sep 13, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

Microsoft Secure Score – Changes in SSPM support

We’re updating Microsoft Secure Score improvement actions to ensure a more accurate representation of security posture. The improvement actions listed below will be added to Microsoft Secure Score. Your score will be updated accordingly.

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Originally posted by Microsoft Sep 13, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

Reminder: Private Unlisted Groups retired in Viva Engage

As part of the effort to upgrade non-native and hybrid Viva Engage/Yammer Networks, private unlisted (“secret”) groups in Yammer were made inaccessible on September 1, 2023. The retirement of this feature was first announced via the Message center on September 1, 2022 (MC424414), then postponed on May 24, 2023 (MC560717). You can read more about the retirement of unlisted groups in this blog post which covers the announcement of three features due for retirement beginning December 1, 2022.

If you have already received an approved exception from Microsoft support delaying your migration to Native Mode, your private unlisted groups will not be affected by this change.

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Originally posted by Microsoft Sep 13, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

Microsoft Graph APIs for Delete Thread

We are pleased to announce the release of the Delete Thread API. This release will allow Tenant Admins to delete 1:1 chat threads, meeting chat threads, and group chat threads as well as restore them via PowerShell scripts. 

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Originally posted by Microsoft Sep 13, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

Custom Meeting Themes Now Available for Light Theme Meetings (Premium)

Custom Meeting Themes, a Teams Premium feature, will now support branding assets for light theme meetings. IT admins will be able to upload brand image and logo that specifically appear for users using light theme meetings to a customization policy.

This is a Teams Premium feature and requires a Teams Premium or Advanced Communications license to use.

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Originally posted by Microsoft Sep 13, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

New service plan enabled for Microsoft Purview Customer Lockbox

You will soon see a new service plan associated with your Microsoft 365 or Office 365 license: Customer Lockbox (A).

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Originally posted by Microsoft Sep 13, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

Defender for Identity reports moved to the main Reports area

Microsoft Defender for Identity reports will be moved to a new location in the Microsoft 365 Defender portal. They can be found under Identities in the Reports area on the main menu in the Microsoft 365 Defender portal. 

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Originally posted by Microsoft Sep 13, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

Performance Improvement for Microsoft Purview DLP for Teams

We’re rolling out an update for Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention to improve the performance of DLP policies to block sensitive information from being shared via Teams chat and channel messages.

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Originally posted by Microsoft Sep 13, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention – New predicates for endpoint DLP

,With this capability, admins can extend the below mentioned predicates to Microsoft Purview DLP for Endpoint – Document is unscannable- Document didn’t complete scanning-  Document name matches patterns- Document size equals or is greater than.

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Originally posted by Microsoft Sep 6, 2023 Uncategorized 0 Comments